Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-11-21
Scenes Of Terrible Excitement---The Dis
used Life Boats Cannot be
Launched.
And THEY GO DOWN TO DEATH.
The Awful Struggles on Board the Doomed Ship
The Tale Of Mans Horrible Brutality
Women and Children Crowded Back
and TrOdden Down.
COLD GRAVES IN THE OCEAN
TheLOt Of the Majority Of the Passengers
How Men and Women Met Death, With
Prayers, aud Shouts, and Curses,
and Lamsntatons---GraphiC
Description BY Survivors,

LONDON, November 20.-The steamer
". A. Scholten, Capt. Taat, which left
Rotterdam yesterday for New York, was
sunk by a collision with the steamer Rosa
Mary, of Hartlepoo, at II o'clock, last
night, ten miles of Dover. The Scholten
carried complement Of 230 passengers
and crew. The steamer Ebro, OF Sunder-
land, rescued 90 OF the crew and passen-
gers, and landed them at the Sailors
Home, Dover. One hundred and forty Of
the passengers are missing. One passenger
and child of the party brought to Dover
were found dead from exposure. 1t Is
hoped that passing vessels hace rescued the
missing ones.
The Scholten's masts are visible from
Dover. Boats have left Dover bound in
all directions for the purpose of saving life
aud property ifpOssible. The Rosa Mary
is anchored off Ramsgate with her bow
stove in. At 5p. m. - bodies from the
W. A. Scholten have been landed at Dover.
The W. A. Scholten left Rotterdam
Saturday morning. At the time OF the
accident a dense fog prevailed. The
Scholten was struck on the port bow by
the Rosa Mary. Immediately after the
shock was felt the Scholten passengers, all
OF whom had retired for tn. night, rushed
on deck in their night gowns. The boats
we're promptly ordered to be lowered, but
il was found that
ONLY TWO WERE AVAILABLE.
The three others were useless, and were
not lowered. The water rushed swiftly
through the hold in the bow, and 4 terrible
scene ensued The panic stricken pasSen-
gers uttered piercing shrieks, and many
fell upon their knees and prayed aloud.
Little children clung to their mothers, who
themselves were snriekiDg with terror.
The officers were cool and self possessed,
and remained on the bridge TO the last.
Several persons procured life belts and
leapsd into the sea. Within twenty min
utes OF the shock tine SCholten was enguli-
cd. All those who had put on life belts
d0ated and were rescued by the boats,
from the steamer Ebro, which CruiSed
around until four o'clock in the morning
Many OF the rescued lost wives, husbands,
brothers and sisters. The survivors were
supplied with clothes, and everything pos
sIble was done to ensure their comfort.
The passengers accounts differ regard
ing the circumstances OF the collision, and
the reports of the officers of the SchOlten
clash. with those of the officers OF the
Rosa Mary. Some OF the passengers state
that the evenings. .merrIment bad ceased,
and most OF the passengers had retired to
their hunks, only few remaining in the
saloon, when a tremendous crash was
heard on the port bow. 1t Is impossible
that the collision could have occurred, by
the SCholten striking an anchored vessel.
The second mate of the Scholten reports,
that he was on deck when he saw an un-
known steamer
THROUGH THE FOG.
Before anything could be done, the
Scholten was struck in the fore rigging
and port bow. The other vessel, when
he now presumeS was the Rosa Mary,
backed OIL, and disappeared. Within
twenty minutes the Scholten sunk. The
captain of the Rosa Mary states that his
vessel, was run into while anchored south
- of south sani hhT heTdr. = ~ an unknown
steamer Finding that the Rosa Mary was
J,maged. he proceeded to Dover roads
,,bara the vessel is now docEed. Inc
Rosa Mary was laden with coal.
According TO the latest statement there
- oIO persons on board the SchOlten,
leaving lS2 drowned and missing. Inc
6rst mate and fourth engineer have been
rscoOnized amoTg the dead, The SchOlten
Ies four miles from the Admiralty Pier
Her three masts are visible. She IS IN a
position dangerous TO navigation. 4 buoy
and lights have been placed at the wreck.
OF the crew, the bodies Of Peter Stell-
berg, chief mate; Duntt, second steward,
and Mrs. H Ike, chief stewardess, have
been identified The bodies are distorted,
showing that death WAS caused by violence
and not by drowning. One OF those saved
is Monte Colo, from the Tyro!. He states
that the scenes on the sinking ship were
terrible The steerage passengers
STRICKEN WITH TERROR
ran about the deck in wild confusion.
The Captain tried his utmost to restore
order, but without effect The passengers
rushed for boats, il WAS with the greatsst
difficulty that the officers could keep them
from Jumping into and sinking them.
Colo was in the water two hours, when
taken out be was greatly exhausted, owing
to the extreme cold and his efforts TO keep
adoat. After the vessel sunk the cries OF
persons in the water, could be heard for q
long time in all directions
George Morse, a passenger, states that
when the crash occurred, q general rush
was made for the deck. Il was told that
nothing serious had occurred, he says, hut
| I secured a life belt. TheIe were six En-
glish passengers on board the vessel, and
one Of these, 3 girl, asked us to keep in q
group, that the Eugiish might 60 down to-
Vether. / was in the water long time,
before being picked up. When the SchOl-
ten sank the
CRIES ARE EHEARTRESDING,
The captain of the Ebro, the rescuing
vessel. behaved no6ly. He had all his
deck load Of timber thrown overheard, and
this iudicions act saved many lives. Only
two of the Seholten's boats were lowered,
the Others could not be got adrifk / do
do not know whether this Was due to any
fault on board. The vessel listed over So
much that Sn the boats could not be
dropped into the water. The people
rushed about in the greatest state Of ex-
citsment all trying toget g place in the
kONT brings this about,
'apy since found out